Chávez government has rejected the authority of Inter-American Court of Human Rights and Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the important external mechanisms for seeking redress for abuses when national courts fail to provide it. . ..…

In March 2010, Globovisión’s president, Guillermo Zuloaga, delivered a speech at a conference of the Inter-American Press Association in Aruba in which he criticized President Chávez for the closure of RCTV and accused him of having ordered the shooting of demonstrators prior to the 2002..…